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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … spent your whole career as far as I’m aware working on specifically fungal natural products and fungal … themselves. But a lot of these natural products are tissue-specific in fungi. Some might go be produced in a sexual …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … move from identification of microbial novelty to assigning metabolic and functional capabilities. Videos from symposium …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with diverse metabolic activities. Found in marine and terrestrial … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … only microorganisms capable of methanogenesis —  it’s the metabolic process these little makers rely on to survive. … two enzymes.” These microbes are specialized to use very specific types of substrates for methanogenesis, and cannot …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … of Sciences bridges this gap, by tracing the evolution of a specific enzyme family called aminotransferases (ATs). These … as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight into a specific enzyme class that’s important to the way many …